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Issue: Vol. 670 No. 1: 24 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-24
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.670.1.8
Page range: 77-82
Abstract views: 209
PDF downloaded: 13

Perilimnastes aura (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae), a new species from Dak Cheung Plateau, Sekong province, Southern Laos

Biology Department, Faculty of Natural Science, National University of Laos, Dong Dok campus, Vientiane capital, Laos
Biology Department, Faculty of Natural Science, National University of Laos, Dong Dok campus, Vientiane capital, Laos
Biology Department, Faculty of Natural Science, National University of Laos, Dong Dok campus, Vientiane capital, Laos
School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China. State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Sun Yat-sen University, No. 135, Xin-Gang-Xi Road, Guangzhou 510275, China.
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Abstract

Perilimnastes aura, a species found in Sekong province, Laos, is described as new. Its habit and morphology of leaves, inflorescences, flowers, and capsules match all diagnostic features of Perilimnastes. It most closely resembles P. suberalata in the quadrangular stems, unequal leaves, and glabrescent, oblanceolate to broadly elliptic leaf blade, but differs in the acute leaf apex (vs. acuminate), 1–3-flowered inflorescence (vs. 1-flowered), quadrangular hypanthium (vs. obtusely quadrangular) and broadly triangular, 1.8–2.2 mm long calyx lobes (vs. linear, 8–10 mm long). Information on habitat, ecology, and a preliminary assessment of the conservation status are also provided for the new species.

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